01-04-2015, 11:43 AM
Ah, two different lathes then. That explains a lot.
That said, you show using the "table" on the lathe which has the top jaws. When I use my soft jaws it's on my similar 3-jaw chuck and I just remove the 2 screws per jaw and swap them out. Yeah, it takes a bit of work but always worth the effort. Probably about the same time as mounting your chuck table (first time I'd heard the term) and quite a bit more versatile.
On the tooth shape, I figured that's what you meant. I've seen the teeth done on gear shapers (and high end Magerele gear grinders.) Fascinating and fantastically expensive machinery for making gears.
That said, you show using the "table" on the lathe which has the top jaws. When I use my soft jaws it's on my similar 3-jaw chuck and I just remove the 2 screws per jaw and swap them out. Yeah, it takes a bit of work but always worth the effort. Probably about the same time as mounting your chuck table (first time I'd heard the term) and quite a bit more versatile.
On the tooth shape, I figured that's what you meant. I've seen the teeth done on gear shapers (and high end Magerele gear grinders.) Fascinating and fantastically expensive machinery for making gears.